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Order to Kill
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Wikipedia article
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'Order to Kill' (, ) is a 1974 Spanish-Italian crime-action film written and directed by Jos Gutirrez Maesso. In the movie the police inspector (Jos Ferrer) offers passports to a hit man (Helmut Berger) and his girlfriend (Sydne Rome) if the hit man kills a mob boss.
Cast
* Helmut Berger Clyde Hart
* Sydne Rome Anne
* Kevin McCarthy Ed McLean
* Jos Ferrer Detective Reed
* Jos Mara Caffarel Richard
* Howard Ross Richard
* Manuel Zarzo Hugo
* Juan Luis Galiardo
* lvaro de Luna Daniel
Production
Eugenio Martn minimized his contributions to the script in the film, stating that itw as "It was Maesso's project, and Moncada and I were to write it. However, there was no way we could come up with a good plot, so we soon called ourselves out. Maesso did not give up, though, and he called and Italian screenwriter to do the job" When the film was finished, Maesso credited both Moncada and Martin for their work on the film, but Martin stated that he probably did not use much of it.
Release
'Order to Kill' was released in Italy on August 31, 1974. In Italy, the film grossed a total of 360,601,000 lire.
Reception
In his book 'Italian Crime Filmography 19681980', Roberto Curti referred to the film as a "tiresome variation on the classic theme of a lonely man's vengeance, notable mainly for a script that in the second part predates Enzo G Castellari's powerful 'The Big Racket'" and that actor Helmut Berger "is given little to do with the clichd character".
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